NodeJS Workshop
Workshop 1
Installation
For each lesson, make sure to run
npm install
Once you have your node_modules installed, just run
node index.js
Workshop 2
Introduction to Express JS
Workshop 3
Create users and list them all in memory
Workshop 4
Now we're getting somewhere. This project structure is a little more
of what you would see in the real world. The folder contains an src folder
told hold all of our code. This allows us to seperate code from project
build files like .gitignore and node_modules.
NOTE:
To run this run npm install and then npm start
Setup MongoDB
WTF is module.export??
So we've used require('...') to import files and we're getting to the point
where there is too much code for one file, so we need to seperate it a little bit.
Using module.export = somedata means that by requiring that file, I will automatically
have complete access to that function, object, etc.
If you plan on making a utility class you can do things like
module.exports.getAllUsers = getAllUsers
module.exports.deleteUser = deleteUser
Where getAllUsers and deleteUser are both functions referenced from
earlier in the code.
Express Router
Now that we have a large codebase, we should also seperate our routes.
routes/index.js will hold our core groups such as users, and each route file
will hold the API methods for each group, such as create, list, get, update, delete.
We use this Router class so that we do not have to include our server.js file to
reference the entire app. The router class lets use this group of our api as a
middleware. We'll dive deeper into this later, but middlewares are the real beauty of
ExpressJS.